Jacob Sanders for Convenor
David Oladele for Deputy Convenor
We were elected to our current roles three years ago. Since then the shop has achieved a lot including:
- An additional £1200 a year in wages for workers on scale point 36 or below. Our wages continue to go up every year in line with NJC increases.
- Leave up 3 days to 28 days for new starters, 31 days after 5 years’ service.
- Mileage increased to 56p per mile for cars, 27p per mile for motorcycles and 26p per mile for cycles.
- Substantial improvements to parental leave, bereavement leave and carer’s leave.
- No probation when you move within St Mungo’s.
- Improvements to the sickness policy, access to training and promotion for night workers and racial equity are currently under negotiation.
- St Mungo’s Unite membership is significantly higher than it was three years ago, strengthening the union collectively and increasing the number of workers we can support individually.
All of the above were achieved with input from many activists and from the membership as a whole. At the same time, we do not believe that they would have happened if we had not been elected Convenor and Deputy Convenor.
Some of the comms sent out during our first term are available at www.jacob723.com and they tell the story of the struggle for improved conditions and the gains that have been achieved.
While there has been significant conflict with management over our first term including the 2023 strike, we hope that the coming years will see less confrontation. With St Mungo’s wages now setting a good example for the Not for Profit sector, it is good for us and for workers across the sector for St Mungo’s to thrive.
That said, we will speak up for workers at every opportunity, in particular:
- End bullying.
- Insist on racial equity in light of the external review.
- Justice for night workers through ending their exclusion from unsocial hours payments.
- Representation for workers with disciplinaries, grievances, sickness processes etc.
We will not back off from challenging management whenever necessary to protect workers’ interests.
Jacob
I became active in our shop during the lead up to the strike in 2014. I have been a rep since 2016 and I was first elected convenor in 2022. I have been politically active all my life and I was recently elected Leader of the Labour Group on Forest of Dean District Council. I view political and trade union work as linked in pursuit of the essential goals of reducing inequality and increasing the share of income that goes to workers rather than owners.
David
I have been an activist for the last 21 years in St Mungo’s. I was part of the Unite team in 2014 that led to all TUPE’d members joining St Mungo’s having all their terms and conditions uprated to St Mungo’s terms and conditions and many more. We hope we can count on your vote. We promise to continue to fight your corner, there is still much more to do.
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